Interpretation ID: 1982-3.24

TYPE: INTERPRETATION-NHTSA

DATE: 11/23/82

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; F. Berndt; NHTSA

TO: Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd.

TITLE: FMVSR INTERPRETATION

TEXT:

NOV 23 1982 NOA-30

Mr. F. Michael Petler Head, Administration Government Relations Department Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd. P.O. Box 1100 Brea, California 92621

Dear Mr. Petler:

This responds to your October 27, 1982, letter asking for permission to place the certification labels for certain motorcycles produced by Suzuki Motor Co. in locations not previously permitted by Part 567, Certification.

You request alternative locations, because some motorcycles are equipped with fairings as standard equipment. These fairings would obscure the certification labels if the labels were to be installed in their required location. You propose, as an alternative, the installation of the labels on the down tubes in front of the engine on either the right or left side. In consideration of the problems of installing the certification labels in their normal positions on vehicles equipped with fairings and since the agency desires that these labels be easily readable, we grant your request to install your labels in these limited instances in the alternative locations that you suggested.

Sincerely,

Frank Berndt Chief Counsel

October 27, 1982

Raymond A. Peck, Jr.

Administrator National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 400 Seventh Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20590

Re: Certification Label Placement

Dear Mr. Peck:

We have been asked by our parent company to request approval that would give Suzuki the option of affixing the certification label specified in 49 CFR 567.4(e) at a location on the motorcycle other than in the area of the intersection of the steering post with the handlebars for certain models, at the time of manufacture.

The reason for this request is that on motorcycles sold with a fairing as standard equipment it would not be possible to read the certification label if it were to be affixed in the usual location on the steering post.

On two previous occasions we have written for permission to affix this label to other areas of the motorycle frame in lieu of the location specified under Part 567.4(e), and in both instances our request was approved.

For the GS1100ES and for other fairing equipped models that will be produced in the near future, Suzuki wishes to be given the option of being able to affix the label to the down tube in front of the engine on either the right or left side of the motorcycle. The general location for the right side is shown on the enclosed drawing.

We would appreciate your consideration of our request at the earliest possible date so that production planning can proceed for the GS1100ES and other models that will be equipped with a fairing as standard equipment.

Sincerely,

SUZUKI MOTOR CO., LTD.

F. Michael Petler Head, Administration Government Relations Department

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Enclosure (1)

SUZUKI MOTORS CO., LTD. October 26, 1982

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